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Uncle Bill, from his Adirondack chair: “Yeah, a son would’ve been something.”
Rex looked over at me the way a drunk man looks at something he has decided not to avoid anymore.
“You know you were an accident, right?”
He said it at the volume of a man who wants an audience.
“I wanted a son.”
The yard went silent the way a room goes silent when glass breaks.continue reading …
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